Sexual function and the older woman

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 463-472

  Kaiser, Fran E ^a,b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; METHYLTESTOSTERONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; SILDENAFIL; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE; TIBOLONE; VAGIGEM;

ACNE; AGING; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG FORMULATION; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LONGEVITY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; META ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OVARY FUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIRILIZATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0042164981     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0690(02)00144-1     Document Type: Review

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